Vivendi Is Next in a Line of Hopefuls
For Entertainment-World Domination

By

Bruce Orwall Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal

Updated June 20, 2000 12:46 p.m. ET

How hard is it to build a world-dominating media empire? Just ask the succession of ambitious companies that thought the entertainment assets once known as MCA Inc. would complete the puzzle for them.

Over 75 years, since a Chicago eye doctor named Jules Stein founded Music Corporation of America to book bands into clubs, MCA has been passed from owner to owner, each with the same dream of fashioning itself into a media behemoth.